![]() ![]() Both the original and the Saturn port display 256 colors on screen at a time, which does not seem like a lot, but the artists did a good job in making this look natural. Generally speaking, this downgrade in resolution does not hinder gameplay and is only readily apparent in a few single screens (for example, the letter to Catherine displays much crisper on the Mac), (COMPARISON IMAGE) although it is easily noticeable when directly comparing the original game side by side with the Saturn port. These borders have partially made it over to the Saturn – the Saturn runs the game in its’ standard 320×224 resolution and features upper and lower borders only and an overall reduction in resolution by a factor of approximately 2. Also of note is the way in which the still images were ported to Saturn – the original Macintosh resolution images are 543×332 actual image pixels against a 640×480 screen, which means that the game displays black borders on all sides. In an odd twist, in order to load a saved game, the player must first begin a ‘new’ game – arriving at the dock of Myst island – before the loading menu can be accessed. It was planned as a North American launch title as well but ended up arriving a few months later due to Sunsoft and Acclaim being caught unawares by Sega’s surprise May 1995 launch.ĭirect save is supported to the system memory and to the backup cartridge, with each save file taking up a mere 4 blocks of memory with five slots available at a time, per save location. The Saturn version arrived as a 1994 launch title in Japan. As a killer app, it was ported to most of the CD-based platforms of the time, from mainstream systems such as the 3DO and PlayStation, to the less so, such as the Atari Jaguar CD and the Phillips CD-i, amongst others. It went on to become the best-selling CD-ROM game of all time, and amazingly, held that title all the way until 2002. It was also a game that seemed to attract non-traditional gamers – and remember, back in 1993, casual gaming wasn’t a ‘thing’. In fact, it was a showpiece of what could be achieved with the all-new CD-ROM medium. ![]() It’s one of those games that everyone seemed to have back in the day, but few people actually completed, and fewer still talked about it – on Saturn, at least.įirst, some history on Myst: the original Myst released for the Macintosh platform on a CD-ROM all the way back in 1993, and it was a massive hit. Saturn Myst: some people love it, some hate it, and a whole lot just don’t understand it anymore (or, never have). ![]()
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